answer:Right? I don’t know if it’s quite practical with the design of the current equipment as it is made to take singular fundamental particles within atoms, smash them together, and see what the littler bits and pieces are. Though Cern and others are known for using a lot of juice I was reading up a bit and it said that a lot of that goes towards running the surrounding facilities and processing of the data. As a dude, I don’t see why the same kind of machinery couldn’t be used to grab globs or successive pulses of say, ‘half a gold’ or ‘half a tungsten’ . . .except that is supposed to be highly exothermic (like the sun) and, well, we would already have nuclear fusion annnnnd it looks like it’s not as simple as magnetic legos as far as existing nuclei are concerned. The dudes with the slide rules say that you have to make things sun-hot before nuclei will consider bonding. . . hmm—then again—if we can isolate individual protons and neutrons and zing them into collisions maybe they would reassemble into something interesting if we smashed enough of them in the same proximity. Beyond me. . . Otherwise, it’s kind of cool to think about: if the guys with the slide rules are right anything that isn’t helium or hydrogen was created in the heart of a star or via supernova—soooo, you’re pretty much made of star-metal.